The Medium:  Will the Spirit rap here?

Twenty-three seconds elapse.

Dr. Leidy:  Is any Spirit present?

An interval of thirty-nine seconds here followed, when the attention of the Committee was momentarily diverted by an inquiry addressed to Mr. Furness by Mr. Sellers, viz.:  Whether a glass plate of sufficient strength to bear the weight of the Medium was procurable.  At this moment the Medium suddenly exclaimed:  ’I heard a rap.  You said, “Get a glass,” and there was a rap.’[A]

[Footnote A:  No one but the Medium heard this rap.—­G.S.F.]

The Medium (repeating for the information of Mr. Furness):  Somebody proposed a glass and there were three raps.

Dr. Koenig inquires of the Medium whether the meaning intended to be conveyed by the sounds is that the Spirits desire to have the glass plate procured.

The Medium:  I do not know.  I know there were raps. (Turning to Mr. Sellers, the Medium adds):  They may have been made by your heel on the floor but certainly there were sounds.

Mr. Fullerton:  Then it was not the regular triple rap?

The Medium:  I could not tell.

Just before calling attention to the alleged rap or raps the Medium grasped with her right hand the woodwork of the side-board as if for support.  It was then that she stated she heard the sounds.  They were apparently not heard by any one but the Medium.

Mr. Sellers (addressing the Spirit):  Will you repeat the raps we heard just now, assuming that there were some?

Ten minutes elapse without a response.

The Medium:  There is no use of my standing longer, for when they come at all they come right away.

Mr. Sellers (after scrutinizing the position of one of the feet of the Medium, remarks):  The edge of the heel of the shoe rests on the back tumbler. (Assuming a stooping posture for a more prolonged scrutiny, he adds):  We will see whether the raps will be produced now.

The Medium now proposes that all members of the Committee shall stand up and join hands.

Mr. Sellers and his associates accordingly stand, facing the Medium, with hands joined.  Changes in their positions were made by some of the gentlemen from time to time, as suggested by the Medium, Mr. Pepper and Dr. Koenig being the first to exchange places.  This occurred after a silence of thirty seconds without any response.

The Medium:  Now, Mr. Seybert, if your Spirit is here, will you have the kindness—­I knew Mr. Seybert well in life—­to rap?

Fifteen seconds elapse.

The Medium:  No, he does not seem to respond.

At the suggestion of Mr. Sellers, all the gentlemen approach the Medium for the purpose of inducing some acknowledgment by the Spirit, and inquiries similar to those already stated are repeated without result.  The Committee then temporarily abandon this test.

All present (except the Stenographer) having been seated at the large circular table in the centre of the room, Mr. Pepper addressed the Spirit of Mr. Seybert, as follows:  ’Harry, will you communicate with me as you promised to do?’